Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-03-04
WHAT THE PRESS SAYS
OF People Whom the World in Genera
Knows Something About.

| WHAT The PRESS SAYS
| OF People Whom the World in General
Knows Something About.
A son of Kit Carson resides in Los Angeles,
and is struggling with Poverty.
Mrs Logan is in receipt of requests from
various publishers to do literary work.
Jay Gould has just purchased little plot
of ground in Louisiana. 1t comprises 100000
acres of signing pines.
Prince Albert Victor of Wales has COM
pleted his 23d year, but is still one of the least
known members of the royal family. He
seldom appears in public.
Frederick Krupp, the son of the great gun
maker wants to get into the reichstag He
has taken the stump as a Nationalist.
1t is said that Mrs. Sawyer, a copyist in the
interior department offices, is ''the very coun-
terpartn of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, and has
on numerous occasions been mistakenf for her.
Ex-Governor Davis, the new senator from
Minnesota, is quite blind in one eye, 'sas the
result of having made too many speeches fac
ing brilliant electric lights"
James Hoag, of Cedar Springs, Mich, is
the smallest man of his age now living He
is ~ years old He was born in 1915.
Mrs. Grants sympathy with the project of
erecting monument in New York city to
her late husbands memory is attested by her
/ gift of S9S25O to the Grant Monument as
ISOLATION. s s,sf
Baron de Jeost,.of Paris, noted all his life
for his cruel treatment of all men and animals
he came in contact with, has left his whole
zHsA fa,. 4l,,,D
vention of Cruelty to Animals.
Miss Emily Bartol, daughter of Rev. DR..
iBartol, of Boston, has completed the studies
which she has been making of Frederick
Douglass, and will at once embody them in a
portrait. 90
Some friends who called on Madame Mod
jeska the other day at her hotel in Boston
found her and her husband like Darby and
Joan-she playing solitaire, and he with news
paper and slippers. 's IS
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes goes very
rarelysinto society now.s and attends no gem
eral receptions, but he is exceedingly careful
to acknowledge with some neat phrase the in
vitations he declines. g.
Mrs Mary Murphy, .of st Louis, who
claims to be 10 years old, is now cutting four
teeth She says that her mother. lived to be
112 years old, and cut an entire set of teeth
one year before she died. Mrs. Murphy'S
mind feels the stress of her many years, but
her appetite is unimpaired
]. w. Bookwalter of Ohio, who has just
returned from Europe for the twentieth time,
says: "From what I could see l think the
Germans would whip the French again.
France is full of soldiers, but they all have
boyish, smallish look, and make no great i'm
preston on strangers
Capt William McMickan of. the Cunarder
Umbria, veteran and most popular ship
master, few days ago completed his 4O2d
trip across the Atlantic without saccident
Jan. 20 a purse of $4,000 was presented to him
as a testimonial on the part of a. number of
his friends in New York.
Mr.. Jones Gilman Clark, who has just
given 81, 000,0 900 to found college in Massa-
chusetts, was born on a farm, grew up, got a
little schooling, learned q trade or two, sold
tinware of his. own make to the peddlers,
opened rag and junk store which subse-
quently became a hardware Store, went to
Californian 1S49 ,made his pile in. business,
sold gold during the war at the war premium
and invested in government bonds, subse-
quently made lucky Investments in real
estate, and is now worth nobody knows how
much.
Representative S. S. Cox is recovering
from his severe illness. In private dictated
note to friend in this city he says that he
suffered a million deaths, but was lifted
through. by two pictures, one on each side of
his bed, of a life boat going out and one
coming in. "Knowihg," he says, 'that my
system had already saved nearly $4,000 lives,
l thought perhaps I could hold the rudder ana
pull through" He adds: II wish some good
writer would show the effect of such associa-
lions on human misery and happiness"
"A private letter from Bill Nye to Chi
caeo friend" says The News of that city,
Z contains the .unwelcome information that the
popular humorist's health, SO, far from being
improved, seems to be becoming poorer and
poorer. In fact, Mr.. Nye writes that he has
been compelled to abandon literary work al
together, and he fears that, if change
for the better doesn't set in pretty soon, he
will have to take to his bed and surrender
himself wholly to the doctors care. He is
still at Ashevi1le, N. c., and he intends to re-
main there for the winter. 1t is apparent
that he is very much discouraged about him
self"
The death has recently occurred of James
Nicholson, the last survivor of the stoisaa~
beaten passengers of the Forfarshire who
were rescued by Grace Darling He never
forgot that awful night, when, as he and all
in the rigging thought, an angel, with long,
yellow hair flowing in the wind appeared,
pulling vigorously to their ships side through
the storm and drift; but he very rarely spoke
of il. He, however, had enough of tie sea,
and for twenty-six years afterward he drove
locomotive on the Edinburgh and Glas-
gov railroad. He was II years of age and
in the employment of an oil company when
he died.-New York Tribune